CredLens matches your issuer-verified credential records to earnings, employment and education outcomes — and returns them only to you. We are a non-profit. We never sell your data. We do not rank you.
The credential ecosystem runs on demonstrated value — but most programs don't have consistent data to answer the questions that funders, policymakers, and partners are asking. CredLens delivers that evidence.
earnings
What are your credential holders actually earning?
Track median wages at 1, 3, and 5 years post-completion — segmented by demographic group, cohort year, and region. Compare earnings across your portfolio and against similar credentials.
employment
Where are your learners working?
Industry, occupation, and employment placement drawn from professional network and social media profile data, matched to issuer-verified credential records. See where credential earners land, whether they’re working in roles aligned to their credential, and how their career trajectory changes over time.
education
What do completers pursue next?
Track credential stacking, degree completion patterns, and the long arc of learner advancement. See how your credential fits into a broader educational journey.
Who we serve
Certification bodies
Understand and demonstrate the outcomes your credential produces, credential by credential.
“We’ve been trying for eight years to get federal data, and within a matter of weeks, CredLens delivered everything we could have hoped for.”
Rebecca Taber Staehelin
Co-founder and Co-CEO, Merit America
BUILT WITH SECURITY. DESIGNED FOR TRUST.
Why partners trust CredLens
Data quality, security, and neutrality aren’t footnotes. They’re the foundation.
Authoritative earnings data, not surveys.
CredLens draws from payroll-derived administrative data sources — not self-reported surveys — so the earnings picture you see reflects what credential holders are actually taking home, across geographies and over time.
Certified security
SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3, ISO 27001, ISO 27018, and TX-RAMP Level 2 certified. Your sensitive data is protected to rigorous, widely recognized industry standards.
Governed as a National Data Trust
CredLens operates as a neutral steward of sensitive credential data — not a vendor extracting value from it. Our governance model is built around transparency, accountability, and the public interest: your data powers your insights, and nothing else.
CredLens is an independent Strada Education Foundation affiliate.
CredLens is a national nonprofit and neutral source of high-quality outcomes data for degree and non-degree credentials. Founded in 2024 and supported by the Strada Education Foundation, we connect issuer-verified credential records to real-world employment, earnings, and education outcomes and deliver those insights through a secure, interactive platform.
Who does CredLens serve?
CredLens serves credential issuers — certification bodies, 2- and 4-year institutions, and workforce training providers — along with funders and policymakers who use outcomes data to guide investment and policy decisions. Learn more about who CredLens serves →
How do I get started with CredLens?
Getting started begins with a conversation about your program, data readiness, and goals. From there, we outline next steps together, including an expected timeline and what data you'll need to share. Talk to our team →
How long does it take to start seeing outcomes?
The time from data submission to initial dashboards is typically within two months, depending on data readiness, agreement and security review, and record completeness. Once dashboards are live, you have ongoing access, and results can be refreshed as new data cycles are processed.
How does CredLens turn credential records into outcomes insights?
CredLens begins with credential issuers—the verified source of record for who holds a credential. You share verified records of credential holders, and we match those records to earnings, employment, and education data from multiple high-quality sources. We return the resulting outcomes through the CredLens Insights Platform, with transparency into source coverage, methodology, and match rates. See how CredLens turns records into outcomes insights →
How is CredLens different from surveys and one-time outcomes studies?
Surveys can add valuable context about learner experiences and goals. But for employment and earnings outcomes, they depend on who responds and must be administered again and again. CredLens starts with your verified credential-holder records and matches them to data from multiple high-quality sources. You get consistent, longitudinal outcomes evidence that can be refreshed over time—without rebuilding a survey or commissioning a new study for every question. Explore the outcomes CredLens provides →
What does being a nonprofit mean for how CredLens works?
CredLens is structured to serve the credential ecosystem, not to sell or license the data organizations share with us. Revenue from partner contracts supports our operations and continued investment in data quality, security, and infrastructure. Our nonprofit structure reinforces our role as a neutral source of outcomes data: we provide the evidence, and you decide how to evaluate and use it. Learn more about CredLens →
Does CredLens rate, rank, or publish an organization's outcomes?
No. CredLens does not rate, rank, or publish outcomes. Your results are returned only to you, and any external use — such as sharing outcomes with an employer partner — happens only with your permission. CredLens is a steward of your data, not a publisher of it. Read our privacy and security commitments →
How does CredLens protect our data and credential-holder privacy?
CredLens is purpose-built to steward sensitive data under clear rules about how data is contributed, accessed, and used. Our security and privacy infrastructure is certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO/IEC 27018:2019 standards, with SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3, and TX-RAMP compliance. We only return aggregated outcomes and suppress results for groups that are too small to protect individual privacy. Learn more about our privacy and security commitments →
How current is the data? Is it a one-time snapshot, or does it keep updating?
CredLens refreshes your outcomes on a regular basis, so your dashboards reflect current results rather than a single point in time. Each dashboard shows its most recent refresh date, and you can track how program outcomes change year over year. Access is ongoing, not a one-time report.
Ready to see your outcomes?
CredLens helps credential issuers, policymakers, employers, and funders use quality outcomes data to make decisions that change lives.
